Analysis: Cyber Westphalia: Early pioneers tended to see the Internet as a force of nature that would forever remain outside the governance of states. When they talked of the Internet, they often retreated into a kind of folksy populism, sometimes a little prone to pomp and hyperbole. Nowadays, with states imposing their wills on the Internet more than ever before, remnants of that early optimism -- such as talking about the Internet as the eighth continent -- are still present but seem to be little more than wishful thinking.

Persian Cyberspace Report 19 July - 25 July 2011: Death was pervasive in the Persian webosphere this week. This report covers Iranian cyberspace comments on the Norway terrorist attacks and also Persian cyberspace reactions to Rezaienejad’s assassination, a masters student in electronic engineering who was killed by an unknown assailant in Tehran.